Word: statements
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Drawing heavily on a special Willkie supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty...
...read the statement which Wendell Willkie issued when the news was brought to him of Franklin Roosevelt's trade of 50 old destroyers for naval and air bases in British possessions (see p. 70). To make it required more political courage than anything that had yet been called for from Candidate Willkie...
...Leaders. Three days later Wendell Willkie tackled the problem which his statement had made more difficult: how to get his own political machine rolling. To Rushville went the Republican leaders of 21 eastern, northeastern and midwestern States to lay plans with their candidate...
...days after his rebellious Congress had convened, General Almazán went into action. He rushed to Manhattan, where he could get a good press, ripped off a fiery statement drubbing the Cárdenas-Camachistas up & down the line. He accused them of consorting with Communism, of falsifying the election returns, of failing to improve domestic conditions "after six years of short cuts to Utopia." Shrewdly he hinted opposition to the confiscation of U. S. interests in Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick...
...sanctification of sex." To implement this realistic view, the new canon would require every clergyman to make sure that the Christian ideal of marriage as "a life-long union of husband and wife" is understood and sought by the persons to be married. Candidates must sign a statement promising "to make every effort" to realize that ideal. Every clergyman is further required to "use all diligence in preserving the peace and concord of every family within his cure," and "whenever the security or permanence of any home is imperiled . . . it shall be the duty of the parties to such dissension...